Process of purifying gas.



PATENTED JULY L 1905.

A. w.. mmm. PRUGRSS @P Wmme? @m .APPLIUATION FILED NOV. 26, 19011.

tartine Patented July 4l, llltlt 'raar wwwlintein lil/)ALBERT vWlLI-IICLlt/t FISCHER, Uli` ll-lILAfDELPlllA, PEN'NYLVANlA, nifi- SlGNOR T() SUHUITE el: ,KOlCR'llNG CUMPANY, OF Pll llJADlGLllilln, PEN lil- WSYLVANIA, A. UURPURATIN UF PENNSYLVi/XNI.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,000, dated .l'uly t, 19025.

Application filed November 26, 1904. Serial No. 234,351`

l'ile it known that l, rvnalmanr lVimiinLlu Visentin, a subject et the (clerman lilmperor, residing at lrJhiladelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usetul Improvements in 'Processes of Separating Gases, Vapors, or lfarticles from Gaseous ltalediums, l'ully described. and represented in the following specification and the aecomlmnying drawings, forming a part oit the saine.

This invention relates to the separation ot gases or vapors or suspended particles ol dust or other solid matter from gaseous mediums. It has been attenipted heretofore to secure such separatimi by spraying` a suitial'lle liquid into a chamber containing the gaseous medium. The liquid so introduced in the liornl o't a more or less line spray acts by com ing into contact with and absorbing the gases or vapors and becoming attached to the partieles ot solid mattei.' and then falling in the chamber to carry such gases and vapors and particles down 'with it. As the selrn'uating action depends uponthe contact of the spray with the gases, vapors, or particles to be separated, this system has proved only partially el'lective and requires, moreover, the `use of large quantities ot the absorbing liquid, because the separe-ation or disintegration ot the liquid into a spray has been such that the liquid remains in comparatively large subdivisions or lportions which present only a courparativel y small sui-tace oli the liquid for contact with the gases, vapors, or particles to be separated, and such portions, moreover, do not remain a su'llicienttime in contact. with the gases, vapors, or particles, but tall a hnost immediately.

rl`he object ot my invention is to improve such Aprocess ot selmrating gases, vapors, and solid particles trom gaseous mediums by securing a inueh more complete disintegration o'li the absorbing and precipitating liquid than is possible with the mechanical sp 'ay ing means heretotore employed-` and by my invention l obtain a much higher etlicienev with the same quantity ot absorbing or precipitating liquid and at the same time a much higher eoneentlation ot the products ot absorption.

The disintegration ot the absorbil'ig and precipitating liquid 'is secured in aecorda'lnce with my invention by heating the liquid `while under pressure to a temperature above the boiling-point ot the liquid at the pressure which prevails in the chamber where the spraying is to take place and nmintaining the liquid under sul'tcient pressure to prevent vaporization and then allowing the liquid while so superheated and under presstn'e to escape into the separating-chamber, preterably through a suitable sprayingnozzle. rlho use oit a spraying-nozzle is `not a `necessity, as the liquid .may be allowed to enter the chamber from any suitable orilice or oritices. l'lf a spraying-nozzle is used, any simple or suitable torm may be used. As the liquid escapes into the chamber heated to a tieniperature above its lmil'ing-point at the pressure in the chanduaf there will be an immediate and sudden vaporizatiou ot' the liquid` accompanied by a, disintegration et the liquid into minute particles caused by the explosive action oli such vaporization, `which disintegration in turn aids in securing a more complete vaporization o't the liquid. The disintegration above relierred to is, as will be umlerstiood, additional to the disintegration caused by the Vuse ot a sprayingnozzle, it such nozzle he used. 'lhe absorbing or iniazipitating substance is thus intro duced into the separating-chamber in a torni ada pled to `present an extent ot surface 'tor contact `with the gases and vapors and particles to be separated vastly greater than can be secured by the mechanical spraying heretotore employed and without raising the temperature in the chamber- To con'lplete the process ot separation, it is necessary that the disintegrated and vaporixell substance so introduced `into the chamber should be i, l1(li\,1ls(al, so that it will 'pi'msipitatiu carrying down with it the vapors and gases which.

it has absorbed and the solid particles to which it has become attached. lt may result in some cases that the substance introduced into the chamber will combine with the gases or vapors to be separated from the gaseous medium, and such resulting vapor or vapors may either be absorbed and carried down by the absorbing' substance or themselves condensed to liquid form and so precipitated with the absorbing liquid. The temperature of the chamber is preferably kept low enough to secure such condensation. It is not necessary, however, that such condensation and precipitation should take place in the chamber in which the absorbing substance is introduced into the gaseous medium containing the gases, vapors, or particles to be separated, as the gaseous medium l with the disintegrated and vaporized absorbing substance distributed therein might be led to another place where the temperature is reduced to cause such condensation and precipitation. Preferably, however, the temperature of the chamber is kept at a point to secure the condensation and precipitation therein.

It will be understood that the invention is capable of various applications to practical use. F or example, as an instance of its use for separating certain gases or particles of mattei' from other gases which are not absorbed by the liquid sprayed into the separating chan'iber, I have found my process well adapted for purifying producer-gas made from bituminous coal. Such gas, as is well known, contains a considerable quantity of the tarry products of decomposition of the coal and frequently also particles of solid matter. My process is well adapted for removing such impurities by rising water as the absorbing and precipitating fluid.

As another example of a contemplated use for my invention: In the manufacture of sulfuric acid instead of spraying water by mechanical means into the chamber in which the liquid acid is precipitated my process may be employed with great advantage.

The accompanying' drawings show a simple form of apparatus adapted for carrying the process into practical operation.

Figure l is a diagrammatic view of such apparatus, partly in section; and Fig. 2 is a detail view.

Referring t-o the drawings, lO represents a separating-chamber having an inlet ll for the gaseous medium from which gases or vapors or suspended particles of solid matter are to be separated and having an outlet l2. The separating liquid is forced under pressure by a pump 13 through a coil in a heater 14 and thence through a pipe 15 to nozzles 1G, from which it escapes into the separatingchamber. The liquid is heated as it passes through the coil of the heater 14 by means of The separating liquid is forced through the coil and the pipe l5 to the nozzles under a pressure greater than the pressure which prevails in the chamber l0 and is heated to a temperature above its boiling-point at the pressure which prevails in the chamber l0, but below the point at which vapor-ization would take place under the pressure maintained in the heating coil and pipe l5. The liquid will thus be kept in its liquid state, and as the superheated liquid escapes from the nozzle 1G there will be an immediate and sudden disintegration and vapor-ization thereof and a thorough distribution of the resulting vapor through the gaseous medium in the separating-chamber, as hereinbefore pointed out. rlhe condensation and precipitation of the disintegrated and vaporized substance thus introduced in the gaseous medium may take place within the separating-chamber, or the gaseous medium with the disintegrated and vaporized substance distributed therein may be lead to another place, where the temperature is reduced to cause such condensation aud prwipitation.

That is claimed is-- l. The process of separating gases, vapors or particles from gaseous mediums, which consists in heating a liquid to a point above itsl boiling-point at the pressure of the gaseous medium, preventing vaporization of the liquid by pressure, and delivering the superheated liquid into the gaseous medium, whereby a rapid disintegration and vaporization of the liquid is secured, and condensing and precipitating the substance so introduced into the gaseous medium, substantially as described.

2. The process of separating gases or va.- pors from gaseous mediums by means of an absorbing liquid,which consists in heating the liquid to a point above its boiling-point at the pressure of the gaseous medium, preventing vaporization of the liquid by pressure, and delivering the superheated liquid into the gaseous medium, whereby a rapid disintegration and vaporization of the liquid is secured, and condensing and precipitating the substance so introduced into the gaseous medium, substantially as described.

3. rIhe process of separating gases, vapors or particles from gaseous mediums, which consists in heating a liquid to a point above its boiling-point at the pressure of the gaseous medium, preventing vaporization of the liquid by pressure, and delivering the superheated liquid into a chamber containing the IOS IIO

gaseous ne(`li1ni^1,v Whereliy a rapid disintegration and vaporimtion oit the liquid is se eured. and condensing and precipitating in said ehaniber the substance so introduced into the gaseous medium, substantially as described.

et. rlhe process et separatingI gases or vapors lroln gaseous niediun'is by means olf an absorbing liquid, which consists in heating` the liquid to a point above its boilingqaoint at the pressure of the gaseous medium, preventingl Vzqyorization of the liquid by pressure, and delivering the superheated liquid into a ehainber containing the gaseous inediuiu, whereby a rapid disintegration and vaporization of the liquid is secured, and Condensing and preeipitatii'ig in said chamber the substance so introduced into Athe gaseous inediuin, substantially as described.

l'ii testinfiony whereof I have hereunto set my hand iu the presence oit two subscribing w itnesses.

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Mon W. SNYDER. 

